Early sketch
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, vocal score, sketch, fragment]
A partial early sketch for Scene 6.
Sketch
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, short score, sketch, fragment]
A sketch headed 'Prelude 3rd Act R & J', although the music rather resembles 'The Walk to the Paradise Garden' (originally an interlude in Act III).
Paris copyist's vocal score
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, copy, vocal score, printer's copy, complete]
With text in French and German, the latter added in Jelka's hand in mauve ink. Threlfall states that this copy was the Stichvorlage for the Lévy-Lulx edition. Included with this item are (i) a title page and list of characters on smaller paper, with Lévy-Lulx's company stamp on the reverse of each and (ii) an English libretto in black and red ink, in Jelka's hand.
Delius Trust Acc 218.
Draft full score
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, draft]
This source contains a draft full score in pencil, miscellaneous pencil sketch sheets in vocal score, and short score sketches for Scene 4.
Florent Schmitt's vocal score
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, partly autograph, vocal score]
Arranger: Florent Schmitt
Translator: Jelka Delius
The manuscript consists of i) the piano part, in purple ink, in Schmitt's hand ii) voice parts, English words and stage directions, in black ink, in Delius's hand iii) French translation by Robert de Humières in red ink (hand unknown) and iv) German translation, in pencil, in the hand of Jelka Delius.
Schmitt's vocal score, entitled
Le Jardin du Paradis, reflects the original demarcation of the opera into three Acts with a Prologue. In the absence of the autograph score, it is the earliest extant version of the work. It contains an earlier entr'acte in Act III, which was subsequently replaced by 'The Walk to the Paradise Garden'.
German vocal score
[Classification: notated music, manuscript, copy, piano score]
Arranger: Otto Lindemann
German vocal score in the hand of an anonymous professional copyist, with some pencilled corrections, originally owned by Robert Threlfall (see RT, 49).
Delius Trust.
Lithographed vocal score
[Classification: notated music, print, vocal score]
Translator: Jelka Delius
Autogr: Lévy-Lulx, Paris 1906.
This private publication, with German words by Jelka, was prepared for the 1907 Berlin performances.
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British Library copy
This copy, marked 'Partie: der Schwarze Geiger' was that used by the performer of the Dark Fiddler's part in the Berlin 1907 production.
GB-Lbl (British Library, London) Music Collections K.5.d.1..
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Ruth Vincent's copy
This item is a copy used by Ruth Vincent, who played the part of Vrenchen in the London performance of 1910. It contains her performing marks, and an English translation of her part in red ink, mostly in the hand of Thomas Beecham (see RT, 38). Inserted into the front of the score are i) a typescript of a 1948 talk by Norman Del Mar entitled 'A Village Romeo and Juliet. A Comparison between the two versions.' ii) the auction entry for this item, dated 9 April 1968 and iii) letters between Robert Threlfall and the Delius Trust.
Delius Trust Accession 23.
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Mondelli copy
This copy was sent to the Mondelli Theatre, Florence, with a covering letter from Delius dated 10 June 1907. As well as various cuts and additions, this copy has a MS insertion of the extended version of The Walk to the Paradise Garden (RL, 78; RT, 38; RT.1986, 25).
Location unknown.
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Bodleian copy
Unmarked copy.
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Robert Threlfall's copies
The Delius Trust holds two of Threlfall's personal copies, containing his pencil markings throughout.
Delius Trust.
Published full score
[Classification: notated music, print, score]
Verlag Harmonie, Berlin 1910.
Lowe indicates that this edition was made on the basis of cuts and additions carried out in the course of the 1907 Berlin performances, as revealed in the 'British Museum copy' of the lithographed score (RL, p. 78). This version was reprinted by Boosey & Hawkes as a study score in 1973.
English libretto
[Classification: text, print]
1910.
Title page: A Village Romeo and Juliet/A Music Drama in Six Scenes/by Frederick Delius/The Text founded on the Novel of Gottfried Keller.
Published vocal score
[Classification: notated music, print, vocal score]
Arranger: Otto Lindemann
Universal Edition, Wien; New York 1921.
This vocal score is in both German and English. Threlfall identifies an earlier vocal score prepared by Lindemann and published by Harmonie alongside the 1910 full score. The piano part in this edition is the same as in the 1910 vocal score, but the English words are changed and stage directions added. This source was reprinted and reissued by Boosey & Hawkes in 1964 (RT, 39).
Collected Edition
[Classification: notated music, print, score]
Editors: Thomas Beecham, Robert Threlfall
London 1985.
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